The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance SensibilityUniversal-Publishers, 1999 - 358 Seiten This work is concerned with the evaluation of rhetoric as an essential aspect of Renaissance sensibility. It is an analysis of the Renaissance world viewed in terms of literary style and aesthetic. Eight plays are analysed in some detail: four by George Peele: The Battle of Alcazar, Edward I, David and Bethsabe, and The Arraignment of Paris; and four by Christopher Marlowe: Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine Part One, Dr Faustus and Edward II. The work is thus partly a comparative study of two important Renaissance playwrights; it seeks to establish Peele in particular as an important figure in the history and evolution of the theatre. Verbal rhetoric is consistently linked to an analysis of the visual, so that the reader/viewer is encouraged to assess the plays holistically, as unified works of art. Emphasis is placed throughout on the dangers of reading Renaissance plays with anachronistic expectations of realism derived from modern drama; the importance of Elizabethan audience expectation and reaction is considered, and through this the wider artistic sensibility of the period is assessed. |
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... given to the capacities of the human will, and Renaissance Humanists looked back on the Middle Ages as a period of stultification of the will. 3 Sister Miriam Joseph, Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language (New York: Hafner, 1947). 4 ...
... given over to deliberative and epideictic forms.16 In the first two books it gives a detailed analysis of the types and sub-types of judicial issues and topics of invention, or material for constructing arguments, to be used within each ...
... given opportunity for character creation, but at the same time it tended to reinforce the impression of set formulae. This is true even of the longer speeches which Lyly often inserts into his dramas. In Campaspe, Alexander's general ...
... given a high ethical standing without any tricks of language: he is simply described as morally sound and well-beloved. Deloney, however, does not always write this way. Even he comes inexorably under the spell of schematicism ...
... given is one of a set lament. From a modern standpoint this creates an impression of tedium. We can hardly sympathize with a character who expresses emotion under such tight reigns of logos. Yet such language is often embedded in the ...
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David and Bethsabe and the Clash between Ethos and Delectatio | 100 |
The Arraignment of Paris Court Ritual and the Resolution | 134 |
Christopher Marlowe Critical Approaches | 164 |
Dido Queen of Carthage Mortals versus Gods and the Ethos | 197 |
Ethical SelfCreation in Tamburlaine Part One | 223 |
Doctor Faustus and the Tragedy of Delight | 266 |
Edward II The Emergence of Realism and the Emptiness | 303 |
Conclusion | 323 |
Bibliography | 341 |
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